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RIP: Tony Benn – “We’ll never have Democracy as long as Big Business can buy Both Parties

Juan Cole 03/16/2014

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British socialist stalwart Tony Benn dies at 88 (via AFP)

Political foes and allies paid tribute to Tony Benn, the totem of the British left who spearheaded the movement against the Iraq war, following his death on Friday aged 88. A Labour cabinet minister in the 1960s and 1970s, Benn was a widely respected…

 

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The Guardian: “Tony Benn: ‘It’s questionable whether we have a democracy’ ”

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Juan Cole is the founder and chief editor of Informed Comment. He is Richard P. Mitchell Professor of History at the University of Michigan He is author of, among many other books, Muhammad: Prophet of Peace amid the Clash of Empires and The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Follow him on Twitter at @jricole or the Informed Comment Facebook Page

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